Right. Further investigation supports your assertion. However, there is another option which I took: move pagefile.sys off of the system drive as described here and onto a data drive. (There are a lot of interesting performance-enhancing ideas on that website). I went one step further and split it into two files, one on my D: drive and one on my E: drive. This gave the [theoretical] advantage of speeding up swapfile activity and freeing up space on my small system drive. In addition, I moved the Windows search index off of the C: drive and onto the D: drive. I now have a quite happy 30+ GB of free space on my system drive and supposedly a better performing computer as well. Once the defragging w/reorganization finishes, I'll see if I can tell any difference.

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